Lewis Richards will bring along some of his XLab (https://leadingedgeforum.com/advisory-service/xperience-lab/) to introduce everyone to the world of Virtual Reality. The launch event will then be streamed live in VR using HugVR with a room setup in Altspace VR, as well as broadcasting on Facebook Live, Periscope and Blab.im. Be prepared to be amazed, and look out for a welcome from a special guest

Rise of the Machine Users - With the rise of microservice architectures, an increasing amount of what we do is weaving parts of Amazon Web Services (AWS) into distributed applications. This lightning talk will cover some best practises for automation with AWS that limits what an attacker can do if a part of the system is somehow compromised.

Veeqo provide multi-channel inventory management software to sell across marketplaces such as Ebay, Amazon, Woocommerce, Magento and Shopify. They are one of the UK’s most promising start-ups, having presented at 10 Downing Street, raised more than £1m through equity crowd funding, and expanded to the United States. Daniel will talk about their current experience migrating off Heroku onto AWS